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Sazerac Launches Two American Whiskey Brands in India
Sazerac Makes Its Most Aggressive India Push Yet with Two New American Whiskey Brands When the Buffalo Trace parent company talks about India, it doesn't use hedging language. Sazerac has been consistent in calling the subcontinent a priority market, and now the New Orleans-based spirits giant is
Trade War Tariffs Made Whiskey Cheaper — Except in Kentucky
The Counterintuitive Economics of Tariffs: How a 2018 Trade War Put Cheaper Whiskey on Most American Shelves — But Not in Kentucky or Tennessee When the Trump administration lit the fuse on a global trade war in 2018, the conventional wisdom inside the spirits industry was that everyone would lose
Diageo Forced to Reformulate Indian Spirits After Flavor Ban
Diageo's India Reckoning: How a Flavoring Crackdown Forced the World's Biggest Spirits Company to the Reformulation Table India's alcohol industry does not often make headlines the way Kentucky's bourbon country or Scotland's whisky distilleries do, but what has unfolded over the past several week
Circle City Whiskey Co. Expands Its 50/50 Club to the Midwest
Circle City Whiskey Co. Takes Its 50/50 Club to the Midwest — and the Industry Is Paying Attention There is a particular kind of credibility that only comes from obsession. Not marketing dollars, not distillery tourism, not a famous founder's last name stamped on the label — just the accumulated t
Diageo's Cameronbridge Strike Threat Could Hit Major Scotch Brands
Scotland's Most Important Grain Distillery Is Heading Toward a Showdown The whisky that fills your glass of Johnnie Walker Black Label doesn't come solely from the storied malt distilleries of the Scottish Highlands. A significant portion of that liquid — the grain whisky backbone that makes Scotc
Scotland's Oldest Distillery Fights Whisky Cask Fraud
Scotland's Oldest Distillery Goes on Offense Against Whisky Cask Fraud The whisky investment world has a fraud problem, and it has been festering for years. Cask traders have built entire business models on the aspirations of buyers who want a piece of Scotland's liquid heritage — and in far too m
Jack Daniel's Tennessee Blackberry: Survival Strategy or Trend?
Jack Daniel's Tennessee Blackberry Is More Than a Flavored Whiskey — It's a Business Lifeline In the summer of 2025, the Jack Daniel Distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee did something that raised eyebrows among traditionalists and sparked genuine curiosity among everyday drinkers: it dropped a black
61 Groups Say This Whiskey Ban Must End
Sixty-one is not a number lawyers throw around lightly. That's how many organizations, states, and legal scholars just told the U.S. Supreme Court they think a 158-year-old federal law needs to go. Not a handful of activists. Not one advocacy group with an axe to grind. Sixty-one separate parties,
Canada's Whiskey Boycott: Survey Shows 69% Want Ban to Stay
Canada's War on American Whiskey: A New Survey Shows the Boycott Has Deep Roots — and American Distillers Are Paying the Price The numbers are in, and they are uncomfortable reading for anyone with a stake in American bourbon or whiskey. Nearly seven in 10 Canadians believe the government should m
Jack Daniel's Loses Again to Bad Spaniels Parody Dog Toy
The Dog Toy That Wouldn't Die: Ninth Circuit Hands Jack Daniel's Another Courtroom Defeat in the Bad Spaniels Saga After more than a decade of litigation that has wound through federal district courts, the Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court, a squeaky rubber dog toy shaped like a b
